Thread by @dappergander

The evolution of this single book really says a lot about QAnon

As suspected, all references to Q have been removed from the latest edition

"Thank you to the entire Q Army... thank you the 8-chan Anons who do battle" has been replaced by "Thank you to all the patriots everywhere... thank you to those who do battle"

This is like reading a Creationist textbook edited into an Intelligent Design textbook.

This is not the first time it's been observed that QAnon is basically a reskinned (some would say secularized) Christian apocalypse cult

However, by stripping Q back out again, it returns to its roots

https://twitter.com/dappergander/status/1093745910935359488?s=20

If you missed it, I dove into the first edition of this incredible book back in 2019, and I absolutely will be diving into this latest edition as well.

https://twitter.com/dappergander/status/1113150946056400896?s=20

The takeaway so far is that the 1st edition is a believer presenting Q as she truly sees it, the 2nd edition is pandemic rebranding, keeping the violent fantasies in the text but softening them on the cover, and the 3rd is in response to Q telling followers to stop saying QAnon

Great question! There's been an evolution on that over the three editions as well

https://twitter.com/EryqOuithaqueue/status/1369706788149485570?s=19

I said it before and I'll say it again: a lot of really strong "cdesign proponentsists" vibes in the third edition

(if you don't know the story of 'Of Pandas and People,' do yourself a favor and check it out)

Not only did this new edition allow her to remove Q, but she could update her completely fictitious number of indictments

It turns out when you just delete every mention of QAnon from your QAnon book, sometimes the sentences you're left with don't make much sense

Genuinely interesting bit here: between the 1st and 3rd edition, Melissa decided that "the grievous sore" is adrenochrome withdrawal

RedpillTheWorld got redpilled herself on that one

Whoops, I guess find/replace doesn't check images huh

Also it's a little depressing that it isn't absolutely amazing anymore

This is another surprising editorial choice: replacing QAnon with "Trump Team"

I can now comfortably confirm that this new edition was created expressly in response to Q commanding their followers to stop saying "QAnon" on Oct 17 2020, as evidenced by this section added for 2nd edition (Oct 2020) and then changed for 3rd edition (Jan 2021).

I mean I'm sure this comes as a surprise to no one, but it's nice to have a kind of confirmation: changing "remember what Q told us" to "remember #3606" means this is still a text for QAnon believers, not a complete rebranding of Q belief for non-Qanon folks.